John Joytree, what about the Tesla Howitzer and other scalar weapons based on Tesla's work. The Russians are said to be decades ahead of us in this area. Why exactly don't you think the physics will work?

They are racked along with the wrecked Flying Saucers and the corpses of the Greys in the bunkers under Area 51 :goof

Well..............
According to a publicly released statement from contractor Northrop Grumman a rocket (not a 'strapped chicken') was destroyed at White Sands Nevada on May 4th this year.

The rocket destoyed at White Sands " has twice the range, flies at more than three times the altitude, and carries a significantly larger warhead than those use in earlier tests of THEL the Mobile tactical High Energy laser.".

Its definitely a flying chicken not a strapped chicken thats been zapped by Laser at altitude not ground-based rail.

Ahem, without giving too much away, certain ships in HM Navy in the Gulf have a much smaller radar-linked laser sited afore the bow gun on selected types of Destroyer, whose purpose is to accurately shine a blinding 'torch light' (!) into the eyes of any pilots of low flying hostile incoming aircraft . (If you blind the pilot you effectively take out the aircraft)

Pity it wasnt available at 'Goose Green', it could have saved Welsh lives........

Don't worry, Tom Clancy already gave that one up in that book about Japs and nukes.

Not only is the Chinese military advancing rapidly in the field of anti-satellite, anti-missile laser weapon technology, but its technology equals or surpasses U.S. laser weapons capabilities currently under development, informed sources have told WorldNetDaily.

According to Mark Stokes, a military author specializing in Chinese weapons development, Beijing's efforts to harness laser weapons technology began in the 1960s, under a program called Project 640-3, sanctioned by Chairman Mao Tse-tung. The Chinese, he said, renamed the project the "863 Program" in 1979, after a Chinese researcher named Sun Wanlin convinced the Central Military Commission "to maintain the pace and even raise the priority of laser development" in 1979.

Today, Beijing's effort to develop laser technology encompasses over "10,000 personnel -- including 3,000 engineers in 300 scientific research organizations -- with nearly 40 percent of China's laser research and development (R & D) devoted to military applications," Stokes wrote in an analytical paper provided to WorldNetDaily. China's "DEW (Directed Energy Weapons) research (is) part of a larger class of weapons known to the Chinese as 'new concept weapons' (xin gainian wuqi), which include high power lasers, high power microwaves, railguns, coil guns, (and) particle beam weapons," Stokes said. "The two most important organizations involved in R&D of DEW are the China Academy of Sciences and the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense (COSTIND)."

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"The Clinton administration allowed the export of advanced radiation-hardened microchip technology, vital electronic components for military satellites and nuclear weapons, to Russia and China," Smith wrote. The technology allowed China to build air-defense laser systems powerful enough to deliver an "estimated...10,000 watts of output power on a target up to 500 miles away." Smith said the Chinese are preparing to deploy "an even more powerful ground-based laser by the year 2000."

The Pentagon declined to comment on current Chinese laser weapons development, but most experts who spoke with WorldNetDaily believe the Chinese have obtained advanced laser technology from multiple sources. They also believe Beijing is involved in an ongoing plan to "acquire" new laser weapons technologies either by producing them domestically, buying them or through espionage.

Tab. 1 the Most known organizations in China,
Conducting research works on lasers and their applications:

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The name | Place
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The state laboratory of laser technics and the National engineering-research center of technologies of laser processing at Scientific and technical university of Guangzhou (are created on base ILT)

Wuhan
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The national engineering-research center of solid-state lasers in scientific research institute of electrooptics of Northern China

Peking
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The national center of laser technologies in Polytechnical
University of Peking

Peking
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University of Sinhua

Peking
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University of Bejhan

Peking
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Institute of optics, exact mechanics and physics AS of China

Tjangun
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The Shanghai institute of optics and exact mechanics AS of China

Quite depressing then to read that Gordon Brown (Red traitor, UK) is abolishing a significant chunk of the British defence Forces and selling off military bases to build more asylum hotels for black settlers and Islamic Migrants.

Its a pity that someone doesnt strap Gordon Browns arse to a chicken and send him down a rail track as a high speed Laser target.